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[HydrogenBond]

One difference between Republicans and Democrats can be seen in the labeling of Conservatives and Liberals. The Reps stay the course. While the Demos like change for the sake of change. This can loosely correlate to the brain hemispheres, with the right side a little more creative, implicit of the Demos. The number of new liberal ideas exceeds the scope of the changes coming from the conservatives.

Demos are more emotionally driven, and are more likely to worry about the feelings of others, including animals. The Reps are often portrayed as cooler hearted beyond a certain scope. This Demo feeling is also better equated to the right side of the brain, since it is irrational; not irrational in the sense of being crazy, but emotions can't be used for reasoning. The feelings act more like fuel to give their reason a direction. This starts right and then moves into the left and uses those feelings, as fuel for the left side logic. For example, it might start like; "poor whales". Then they get creative using logic to figure out how to make it better for the whales. The L logic is a means to the end, which is to figure out how to appease the feeling.

Both parties use both sides of the brain, just the Demo's are more likely to add creative impulse and emotion from the right to fuel the left. The Reps tend to use the beaten path of tradition which is more easily focused in the left due to training, without wanting to add a lot of changes. They tend to go left to right using this logic system for the fuel of their emotions. The emotion is used to reinforce the well traveled conservative path. The strong emotion is there as a means to an end, which is their system.

Let me give an example of these two dynamics, L-R and R-L. If you just got a new job in a company, it is often very conservative. Management does not want someone new to rock the boat. The establishment knows the system and is very functional within the left hemisphere, i.e., rational. To make a change could create gaps in their well organized logic system. Based on that system, they could get emotional resisting any form of change. It is the well tuned L machine, generating a supporting R side emotion, that is used to make sure the L machine stays the course and doesn't change.

The person trying to make that change, if he goes L-R, he may fight a few battles but will give up since he is no match for the machine. The better way is to go R-L. What this does is give him an emotional fuel, i.e., eye of the tiger. The emotion just keeps on pushing, almost irrationally. The emotion is driving left side reason. One not may see the logical implications of their short term actions. Their emotions may fluctuate, fluctuating the left output both in a negative and positive way.

You sort of have to hand it to the liberals in that they just keep pushing with their R side emotional fuel. Not all their ideas are logical, but the emotions causes the tide to turn. It is sort of the party that keeps emotionally pushing for change and slowly chips away.
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